Category Archives: XW-2A

I’ve put together my list of candidate orbits that are happening during daylight hours for Field Day 2018. Orbits in green are pretty optimal. Orbits in yellow are lower (and hence further away, or in darkness). Satellite Passes FD 2018

The satellites are conspiring against me this year, mostly passes in the dark (nothing like stumbling/fumbling around in the dark in a field), but I’m getting the uplink calibrated again on my IC-9100. Anyway, was able to calibrate AO-7 uplink … Continue reading →

Well it’s that time of year again, I’m dusting off the portable satellite gear and making sure it’s working. I had just updated the clock, and TLEs, when I noticed that UKube was above the horizon. I quickly turned on … Continue reading →

The table of times listed below will likely be off a bit since FD is about 10 days in the future and the TLEs will have changed slightly by then. However it is good enough for planning purposes. Daylight and … Continue reading →

I went through my logbook since I got back on the air five years ago and discovered a bunch of confirmed satellite QSOs. In that time I’ve worked the following: AO-7 Confirmed by eQSL AO-27 (Four QSOs but no confirmations … Continue reading →

I’m feeling guilty for neglecting DX, but I’ve been having a bunch of fun with satellites recently. Several QSOs on FO-29 with calibration of both SSB and CW uplink performed. Not much CW action on these days, but I’ll be … Continue reading →

XW-2A had a pass around 22:25 UTC. I found my uplink to be about 0.5 KHz high again, so I applied the corresponding offset to my SatPC32 doppler.sqf file, and had a good tx/rx relationship for the pass. At 22:29:06, … Continue reading →